Posted on 01/01/2010 6:44:00 PM PST by Saije
President Barack Obama received a high-level briefing only three days before Christmas about possible holiday-period terrorist threats against the US, Newsweek has learned. The briefing was centered on a written report, produced by US intelligence agencies, entitled "Key Homeland Threats", a senior US official said.
The senior Administration official, who asked for anonymity when discussing sensitive information, said that nowhere in this document was there any mention of Yemen, whose Al-Qaeda affiliate is now believed to have been behind the unsuccessful Christmas Day attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to bring down a transatlantic airliner with a bomb hidden in his underpants. However, the official declined to disclose any other information about the substance of the briefing, including what kind of specific warnings, if any, the President was given about possibly holiday attacks and whether Yemen came up during oral discussions.
According to the senior official, the holiday threat briefing, one in a series of regularly-scheduled sessions with top counter-terrorism officials, was held in the White House Situation Room on December 22. Present were representatives of agencies involved in counter-terrorism policy and operations, including Attorney General Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and FBI Director Robert Mueller. The CIA and National Intelligence Directors Office were represented by deputy agency heads: CIA deputy director Steven Kappes, and David Gompert, the principal deputy to National Intelligence Czar Dennis Blair. Also present was Michael Leiter, director of the National Counter-terrorism Center, a unit of the Intelligence Czar's office which was created after 9/11 to ensure that intelligence reporting about possible terrorist plots was shared quickly among all US agencies who might have some capability to do something about it.
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In the cockeyed world of Ohaha, that musta been a highly-regarded "credential" for a top WH job.
I always get a kick out of THE ACT these two put on for the cameras.
ROTFL. These two should get Academy Awards for Best Performance in the category of "Duping the Citizenry."
Axelrod might even get a Golden Globe for faking his wide-eyed "deer in the headlights" look---posing as a political innocent. Like he's trying to reassure a wary citizenry that he's harmless.
I wanted to laugh at your post...except that this administration’s failures are too horrendous.
Precisely.
I am not not one of 0bama’s biggest fans but everything I see in this report is typical of any normal threat briefing.
Great photo. I’m curious if you know what year that was taken...30’s...40’s....50’s.....?
obama has said himself that we are not war with muslims
well duh it’s not the Catholic trying to kill us is it you fool.
How messed up is it when we have a muslim woman doing security at an airport stopping and searching a nun
Now either this muslim woman is just plain stupid as is most of the TSA or she picked this nun out on purpose for either a laugh or out of spite.
either way that woman should be fired as should the muslim in the white house.
For any lefty trolls reading that then instead is saying o look the right is saying he’s a muslim then instead use your brains and look up obama’s own words and look at his actions then.
There is is much evidence now to say this man is a muslim and had you lefty fool fooled
While being preoccupied with destroying our health care system.
nail on head.
you can show a far left Dem evidence of obama saying islamic prayer, show obama saying he is a muslim, show them this and that, tell them how he does not presents at Christmas nor does he celebrate it,Tell them how they did not want the nativity scene this year.
Tell them and show them how he was dressed in muslim clothing and him saying he will side with islam all the time .
This will be ion his own words where they can watch and they still REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE TRUTH ON THIS MAN.
I would love to have 5 questions asked before anyone is allowed to vote , if they get any wrong then they do not vote.
Course the Dem would be against this just as they’re against no letters at the end of names when voting.
The Dems have all the idiots when they vote, it’s that simple.
This would not be relevant to this thread except that the title of the movie was:
The Lyin' King must have been watching old movies instead of listening to his intelligence reports.
Nostraldamus couldn’t get to the bottom of a mud pit.
Thanks for the links.
Plot Exposes Fissure In U.S. Intelligence Community (Flight 253 Bomb Plot )
Was trying to figure out which side might have written it.
I as well suspect that’s the plan.
Rahm's father was part of the the Haganah (an underground Terrorist Group) which bombed the King David Hotel during the British Mandate in which 91 innocent civilians were killed.......
*** In the cockeyed world of Ohaha, that musta been a highly-regarded "credential" for a top WH job. ***
If the Domestic Terrorist duo of Bill Ayers and his psycho wife weren't so radioactive you could bet the rent they'd both be in Barry's administration. And if they were Black, I'd bet he would have tried. That way any criticism would be chalked up to racism by 'white extremists'.
Barry would find some place for Bernadine where her felony conviction wouldn't be an issue.
It's a good thing I believe in eternal justice, that's all I can say.....
Obama, Rahm, et al at Gitmo........TOO sweet!
UGH! Podesta!
Yes, you’re so right!
I for one, had completely forgot about him, because I still think of him as a Clinton man, not a Soros/Chicaco thug.
Don’t forget that other Chicago thug, Podesta, in your “files.”
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/12/rahm_emanuel_so_far_having_a_v.html
WASHINGTON—”A very strong run so far.” That’s how former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta—the native Chicagoan who ran President Obama’s transition operation—evaluated Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
Rahm is lacking part of a finger and for many years went around claiming that he’d lost it in military actions against the Israeli enemy in a tank. Course, if Rahm fought in the military of foreign government, that would negate his American citizenship (US citizens forfeit their citizenship when they serve in the military of a foreign government).
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